Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During McManus' all too brief 19 months in command at TIME, the magazine was particularly praised for last year's American Best special issue, the creation of an Ethics section, the pioneering application of new technology to provide late coverage of the breakdown of the Iceland summit, and the remarkable use of photography in the Statue of Liberty Centennial issue, including the largest picture ever to appear in TIME, a four-page foldout of the fireworks over New York harbor. For such achievements last year, the magazine is again one of the five finalists for a National Magazine Award...
...retrospect, the security breach seems to explain some of the Soviets' recent diplomatic behavior. During last fall's summit in Iceland, U.S. negotiators were disturbed by the Soviets' uncannily well-prepared responses to U.S. points. "We thought at the time that they were remarkably sophisticated in anticipating our positions," says a State Department official. Now, says another, the U.S. realizes that throughout Reykjavik, "we played poker with the Soviets, and they were looking at a mirror over our shoulders." Government sources are equally convinced that the Soviets had inside information last August during the crisis surrounding the Kremlin's arrest...
Moscow had hinted at a similar separate deal last year. But ever since the October summit meeting between Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland, the Kremlin has insisted that its proposals on reductions of strategic, medium- range and space and defensive weapons had to be considered as a package. In Iceland the two sides tentatively reached agreement on a "zero solution" -- removal of both superpowers' medium-range missiles -- but that was blocked when the Soviets demanded that all three topics be dealt with together...
Gorbachev's offer reversed the Soviet position, taken after his Iceland summit with Reagan last October, that agreement on medium-range nuclear forces must be tied to the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative...
This is the same man whose aimless foreign policy bred disaster in Beirut, the same man who flaunted his comprehension gap and nearly sold the farm at Iceland...